Hello, strangers.
A few blog posts ago, I wrote (A LOT!) about figuring out my identity (and what that meant to me) based on the archetypes present in my life. Well, this past Wednesday, on the way home from class (coincidentally the one we discuss archetypes in), my dominant archetype made an appearance.
You see, I carpool with a classmate who is about 20 years older than me (in her 40s). We were driving home from class, and she randomly read a sign for a business in one of those sketchy strip mall type establishments. Since we are in Texas, the sign was in Spanish. She knows Spanish and read it outloud in Spanish. Since I don't know a lick of Spanish, I had to ask her what it said. This is our exact conversation:
Me: What does that mean?
Classmate: Pretty Girls.
Me: Oh, so it must be some sort of salon or something, right?
Classmate: Um, no... it's more like a... (pause as she takes into account my goody-2-shoesness.. lol) gentleman's club...
Me: Oh... well, it could be the name of a salon...
Classmate: HAHA! (She literally giggled for a few seconds.) There's your Innocent coming out...
So, this normal, everyday, seemingly not important conversation turned out to be something quite meaningful (to me at least). It confirmed to me something that I had read about myself in a book. I just never really noticed before, but now since I'm aware of my dominant archetype, I'm extremely sensitive to every little piece of it that seeps out of me. So, strangers, this unimportant-turned-important conversation confirmed my identity. I am quite clearly the Innocent. :)
Interesting post! I like your conclusion. I'd say im quite innocent myself or maybe just extremely uncomfortable about certain topics lol. But anyways I enjoyed your post! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mina.
ReplyDeleteBefore I took the assessment in my book, i knew I would score high on the innocent and the altruist archetypes. So I'm sure you are right when you think you have that trait as well. :)